Back in the time before television went digital and High Definition wide screen was the norm, the state of the art video was shot on Beta SP and when digital was available, it was shot on formats such as DVCPRO and DVCAM. All of these formats were still Standard Definition. What that means is that the picture they created was mostly a square picture and it was only one forth the size of a normal HD TV of today. When preserving these...
Read MoreVinyl Record Audio Transfers Vinyl Records were the thing for many many years. They are the child of the original cylinder recordings. They were more reliable and durable. They came in multiple formats including: Thick 78 RPM records, Small 45RPM records, Larger 33RPM long play records, Recordable home use records and the same home use records that played in reverse order. There were also Transcription Records which were unusually...
Read MoreU-Matic Video Transfers U-Matic being one of the very first steps away from an actual Reel To Reel Video recorder was well on it’s way to becoming the Video Home System but it’s price and size seemed to keep it out of homes. It did however find a home with Corporate and Educational environments for Video. With much use, the U-Matic format proliferated and is still found today within many archives awaiting conversion and...
Read MoreTodays pace in preserving images, documents, video, audio and much more has given the world a wonderful step forward in managing how we record and save information. With the advent of digital media comes the methods for capturing and saving of this modern age… “Solid State” … This buzzword is the icon of success as it means using new mediums which can be written to and erased over and over again. The amount...
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